Could Wiggins opt not to enter the draft drop out and be signed during the summer? Say he desperately wants to play for the Raps or is that illegal?

From earlier in the thread:

tkfu wrote:

Nope. There are 4 ways to become a Rookie Free Agent (which is a different thing that being an Unrestricted Free Agent, but close enough).

- Be 26 or older
- Declare for the draft and don't get drafted
- Declare for the draft, get drafted, team that drafted you renounces their rights to you
- Declare for the draft, refuse to sign a contract with the team that drafted you. You then may enter the following year's draft, as long as you do not play professional or college basketball in any capacity anywhere in the world for an entire year. (If you do play basketball professionally, even an exhibition game in the Phillipines or something, the team that drafted you retains your rights.) The following year, you can again refuse to sign a contract with the (new) team that drafts you, spend another year not playing any pro or college ball, and then for the following season you'll be a Rookie Free Agent. Needless to say, nobody does this.

Not just that but Wiggins is like how old right now? 18? His life is about to change in ways that nobody here can really fathom. What he says in any interview right now is out the door when he steps into the NBA spotlight. When ever he does become eligible to hit the free agent market he will have a completely different perspective on what he wants.

This is one of THE most sensible posts in this entire topic. He was asked one casual question and he responded by naming his hometown team and the team he grew up cheering for. People are analyzing his response way too much. Wiggins's mindset now will be WAY different than his mindset when/if he does become a FA. What if the team he does get drafted too has a stellar supporting cast? What if they are a contender and Toronto isn't? (At the hypothetical time when he is a FA) Point being, we should be appreciative for the fact that the hometown boy wants to play for the team and revisit this in the future if it happens. All these scenarios of him forcing teams to let him play in Toronto are just crazy.

This is one of THE most sensible posts in this entire topic. He was asked one casual question and he responded by naming his hometown team and the team he grew up cheering for. People are analyzing his response way too much. Wiggins's mindset now will be WAY different than his mindset when/if he does become a FA. What if the team he does get drafted too has a stellar supporting cast? What if they are a contender and Toronto isn't? (At the hypothetical time when he is a FA) Point being, we should be appreciative for the fact that the hometown boy wants to play for the team and revisit this in the future if it happens. All these scenarios of him forcing teams to let him play in Toronto are just crazy.

We're only having fun homie. Its the off season, time to relax and talk non-sense

Would it be taking this whole situation too far if we were to come up with something collectively as a group with reason why we want wiggins in Toronto to the send to him on twitter multiple times??

This may be a joke but please don't do this people.

Forget all the hype, forget all the articles and realize that he is still a kid. And with all the pressure he already has to face he really shouldn't have to put up with being bombarded on the internet by fans wanting him to pull an asshole move like refusing to play for certain teams before he's even put on an NBA jersey.

Not just that but Wiggins is like how old right now? 18? His life is about to change in ways that nobody here can really fathom. What he says in any interview right now is out the door when he steps into the NBA spotlight. When ever he does become eligible to hit the free agent market he will have a completely different perspective on what he wants.

this. how he feels now is in no way indicative of how he MIGHT feel many years from now...after he's spent those years in another city that will in short order become 'home,' even if it's some shit-hole outpost. even if the team that drafts him is horrible every year, he's going to develop connections with the city, team etc., that will whittle down his supposed 'desire' to play for the raptors/in TO. i would say that the likelihood that wiggins ever dons a home uni in TO at any point close to his prime (essentially, prior to age 36-ish) - if he's not drafted by them - is about 1%.

but hey, dream on.

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